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Topic: Need Help to set up a DSC alarm panel using PC5401 module. (Read 4662 times)

Hello,I used Linuxmce as Media Center at home for one year, and I love this software. Linuxmce realy rocks!!!.Also have a SPA3102 and a cisco 7970 and this is working perfect, now I want more fun.

I recently I get a DSC PC5401 (module for my DSC alarm panel) but now I stuck trying to get it work.The module is connected to the DSC and it is operating normally, but for some reason when I configure the module via the linuxmce admin page it doesn't run.

I found using minicom, that there is no data incomming at COM1 /dev/ttyS0 but if I plug a windows machine with hyperterminal I see that date comming from this module. I'm think that this issue maybe is related with the COM ports configuration at my hybrid/core.

Is there some previous steps in order to get it work? Is Linuxmce turning off the COM1 when it didn't detect the module?

This is very interesting. Might be the only available working security system? Vista-ICM is supported but no longer sold (also rare on eBay). Caddx has potential but no one has made it work AFAIK. Is DSC the way to go?

Yes, I think that DSC is the way until now.It still has some issues specially with PNP (because we need to work with). I installed a new 10.04 in order to buid a new device template and run more tests.It's working fine, the issue that I got, arrise (for some reason) when you need to run "a quick reload router" (DSCRouter loose communication w/ the module) It can't bring back if you just resetting the module. But If you reboot core and it cames online again.

I think that is PNP again, and it's kind of failure is identical as you can see on 0810 with PLCBUS, because of that I think that is a problem w/ generic serial devices and PNP.I will need a little bit of help in order to finish the integration. I mean, I'm not a programmer.